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A man was taken to hospital last night after barricading himself inside a central Hamilton home, ending a tense 33-hours of negotiations with police.

Here's a look at the weather you can expect in Hamilton today.

Fear of the pungent smell of pot smoke has prompted Hamilton's largest social housing provider to ban smoking altogether in its new buildings. They aren't the only landlord wondering how to deal with the smell.

Hamilton Police Service's proposed budget would bring more frontline patrol officers to Hamilton streets at a time when increased shootings have attracted attention and criticism over whether the city has adequate policing resources.

Ontario's ombudsman will investigate an incident in which Niagara Region staff seized a reporter's equipment and called police.

Some Flamborough folks are worried about the loss of their rural identity — and having to pay for transit — after an Ontario Municipal Board decision to eliminate Ward 14.

Hamilton police say they are trying to track down whoever is breaking into local car dealerships and stealing tires.

A judge swiftly quashed co-accused Dellen Millard's call for a mistrial at the Laura Babcock murder trial, where he is acting as his own lawyer.

Two men are facing several drug charges after accidentally getting lost at the U.S. border in Fort Erie and getting stopped with over 100 grams of cocaine, police announced today.

Police say they are trying to negotiate with a man who barricaded himself inside a central Hamilton home overnight.

Here's a look at the weather you can expect in Hamilton today.

A Dundas man is battling the Ontario PC party in court this week over a secretly recorded one-hour conversation the party has already spent more than $245,000 trying to keep under wraps.

A 13-year-old is facing charges after an online threat was made against a Brantford high school, police say.

Detectives are searching for a missing snow plow after a plowjacking on the Mountain yesterday, police say.

A new home price index published Wednesday shows a rapid deceleration in Hamilton home prices since the summer.

A group of anti-pipeline protesters say they are disrupting an Enbridge work site west of Highway 8 in Flamborough in an effort to stop work on the company’s Line 10 expansion project in the area.

Here's a look at the weather you can expect in Hamilton today.

The Ontario Municipal Board has ordered the city to radically change some of its suburban boundaries, including creating a new ward on the west Mountain, and eliminating rural Flamborough's dedicated ward altogether.

Chief Eric Girt says stood firm Tuesday in his assessment that paramedics, not police, are the better responders to carry naloxone locally.

Hamilton police say they have tracked down security camera footage of the man who was being accosted by two men prior to Yosif Al-Hasnawi intervening. Now, they are asking for the public’s help in identifying him.

Mayor Fred Eisenberger called comments about local police funding made by a Hamilton MP at a homicide memorial last weekend “totally outrageous” and “inappropriate.”

Police are asking for the public's help finding a federal offender who is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for breach of parole.

Here's a look at the weather you can expect in Hamilton today.

On the surface, Lara Sweet was the opposite of her dad: purple haired, tattooed, feisty, rebellious. But MP David Sweet says he's carrying on a message from her death.

As the jury at the Laura Babcock murder trial deliberates behind closed doors, CBC News can now reveal some of the things jurors didn't hear during the weeks-long trial in Toronto.

Hamilton police are urging drivers to slow down as another person in Hamilton has been charged with stunt driving in the last week.The latest to be charged is a 24-year-old Waterloo man who police say, was going 55km/hr over the speed limit.

A Waterloo woman who pled guilty in June to sex abuse charges, was back in a Hamilton courtroom Monday where defence and Crown argued over an appropriate sentence for the offences.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is suing the Opposition leader for defamation.

Investigators know for sure it was used when someone got gas and drove off without paying for it.

A Hamilton man is charged with careless driving after police say he was using his phone while driving and ran into a police van.

Justice Michael Code told the jurors at the Laura Babcock murder trial today that they will begin deliberations on a verdict starting Tuesday.

On Sunday afternoon in a Hamilton church, hundreds gathered to discuss religion and faith, speed-dating style.

A Hamilton woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by her chiropractor and then forced to see him and his friends for months at the bar where she worked says she's relieved that the allegations are being taken seriously two years after she first came forward.

Here's a look at the weather you can expect in Hamilton today.

A hearing-impaired Calgary man is travelling to Austria to get a life-changing medical device surgically implanted that will help him hear clearly for the first time. Because the Alberta government won't pay for the surgery, his retired parents are footing the $50,000 bill.

There is a stolen school bus making its way around Hamilton and police are warning the public to not approach it, but to report it immediately.

The man who drove off in a marked Hamilton Police cruiser faces numerous charges and is due back in court on Monday.

Sunday in Hamilton will be mainly cloudy with a high of -2 C. Snow will begin to fall later in the evening and will persist into Monday.

It’s been five years since Idle No More was elevated into the Canadian conscious, and the founders continue to speak up for Indigenous sovereignty, the land and water.

Ontarians don’t think too highly of people on social assistance, according to a new survey about discrimination from the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

The dream of a no-mess Christmas tree is becoming a reality as Nova Scotia producers prepare to plant special tree seedlings years in the making.

A look at the organized chaos behind the scenes that brings the precision ballet to life on stage.

Hundreds gathered at Hamilton city hall on Saturday to mourn and pay their respects for 19-year-old Yosif Al-Hasnawi, who police say was shot to death last Saturday while trying to help an older man in a confrontation with two younger men.

A three-year-old boy found trapped under a bed in a burning house on Six Nations was pronounced dead in hospital Friday morning.

What the city of Hamilton spends on hotel rooms for families when homeless shelters are full has ballooned to nearly $450,000 so far this year.

A three-year-old boy found inside a burning house was pronounced dead in hospital following a house fire on Six Nations Friday morning.

When a Hamilton police officer found an abandoned bag filled with thousands of vintage wrestling photos, he was determined to solve the mystery of its origin and find its rightful owner.

Students, faculty, supporters and Yosif Al-Hasnawi's family gather at Brock University to remember the young man who lost his life to a gunshot last Saturday in Hamilton.

Three townhouses were damaged by fire, and six more by water and smoke, at a multiple-alarm fire on Nesbit Boulevard in Flamborough on Friday afternoon.

Bill Sawchuk, a St. Catharines Standard reporter, wasn't recording anything, the paper says. But staff kept his laptop and notebook, and called police as they removed him from the building.